R to @echo_pbreyer: 🇬🇧A few facts about the current war against anonymously accessible adult pornography online:
1️⃣Regional age verification laws and access blocking are ineffective: 60% of 16- to 17-year-olds have already used VPN services
2️⃣68% of 16- to 17-year-olds would simply switch to other adult websites without age verification requirements - sites from Russia, the Philippines, South America etc. will never all abide by our laws
3️⃣86% of users refuse to show their ID or face out of concern for their data - quite rightly: leaks of the intimate lists of all porn users would only be a matter of time, probably along with the logs of the images/videos viewed
4️⃣There there is still no anonymous proof of age procedure that doesn't require sharing a photo of an ID or or your face, although it is conceivable (e.g. sell access codes at petrol stations in exchange for presentation of ID but without data collection)
5️⃣Nobody can prevent credentials from being passed on to minors

Source of the figures: Yougov poll https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/online-research/barriers-to-proving-age-on-adult-sites

Conclusion: Age verification will hardly prevent young people from accessing porn, but they will restrict Internet freedom and the sexual freedom of adults. Experts say that the public debate often overestimates the negative consequences of porn consumption on young people.

Can we please give up the solutionism, public agitation and moralism and instead empower young people and realistically help them learn a healthy approach to the accessibility of pornography?
#Empower #Pirates

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/echo_pbreyer/status/1755148090468708413#m

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